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Hello everyone,

I just scraped together a new system. I was on a pretty tight budget so it is nothing major:

FX-8320
Asus M5A97 R2.0
Corsair Vengeance 8GB
CoolerMaster Silent Pro Gold 550W - 80 Plus Gold Certified
Seagate 500GB 3.5" SATA-III 6Gb/s Barracuda Hard Drive 7200RPM
Antec All Black 302
Asus VS238H-P 23-inch

I waited with purchasing the videocard because the new Radeon cards just came out and prices are dropping everywhere. I looked at countless of benchmarks about what would be the best videocard, but they just keep confusing me more and more. I hope you can help me pick one.

I am playing games like Diablo 3, DOTA 2, WoW and I am planning on playing BF4 as well when it comes out. I am going to play on 1920x1080 and I will only be using one monitor. I would like to put all graphics on highest and play 60fps.

I live in the UK and I just want a card that can run games on ultra on 60fps like mentioned above. I am not looking for a 290x or anything very expensive. What I already looked at:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/DirectCU-Graphics-Express-Display-Technology/dp/B008NF3R1I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382715013&sr=8-1&keywords=asus+7950

Or could I buy a R9 270x instead and play everything just as well? I can already pick up an MSI TF one that I always liked in the past for around £160/170.

I am just confused between the 270 / 760 / 280 / 7950 / 7970.

I hope you can offer me some advice to help me choose!
 
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it is the same difference between 270x and 7950 2-5 fps

but 270x will get...
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the 7970 ghz edition will get you were you want to go although your cpu will bottle neck depending how cpu intensive the game is just letting you know
 
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Games like D3 and Dota 2 require very little graphical power, so any decent card will be able to max them at 60fps.

BF4 however is a different kettle of fish. Going by the beta, it's a pretty damn demanding game (and going by the BF3 beta, the performance is only gonna get worse, figures!). With my setup, I was rocking 60fps at Ultra and dropping to 45 min now and again when stuff got hectic.

TBH, you're gonna need a brute of a card for BF4 Ultra 1080p @ 60fps.

First thing's first, what's your budget?
 
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with cpu intensive games mentioned aboved its not all about your gpu as mentioned theyre cpu intensive game and with games not utilizing all those cores the fx series loses to the intel line up you might see lower frames because your cpu might not handle it maybe the same thing with BF4
 
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the 7970 GHz is the same r9-280x (for performance and FPS) but +new features for r9-280(like true audio for EX) and in the same price
 
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Thank you for the replies, this is also where my confusion was. Because I kept seeing benchmarks of quite low cards where they went above 60fps on ultra. I could just not see that happening with such cards. I am talking about something like a 760 here.

And if my CPU will be a bottleneck for a 7970, then of course there is no need to buy that card in the first place.

I would like to stay around £200 for the card. As I mentioned in my first post, there is a 7950 DCUII for about 200, and I guess that one would be better than a 760 and a 270 at least.

I understand that BF4 everything on ultra is going to ask for a beast of a card, I will settle for high settings as well. Games like DOTA2 and D3 will be fine with a lesser card, but I also want to be a bit future proof.



If I am setting everything on high I will be happy as well.
 
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even if you get a bottle neck its still a good card you do have a good processor im just saying at some games you will see a bottle neck but with still good fps for the most part that card you mention the 7870 will not give you ultra on BF4
 
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Yeah, I was thinking about going for that at first as well. But for £30 more I get an Asus DCUII 7950.

I guess my confusion is still between those two.

 
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well it depends what you want if you want price with performance get the 280x itll play games on ultra for some time to come I have a 7970 and it even plays cyrsis 3 on ultra with my 8350 crysis .3 is extremely demanding its crazy
 
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The 7950 should perform slightly better than the 270x.

but the 270x will give you(AMD TrueAudio and Mantle and Graphics Core Next (for games like BF4))
 
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Thank you for the reply.

I feel the 280 is just above my budget. I have always had good experiences with MSI and for some reason there is already one for £240: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-225-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1842

Add shipping to that and you would be at £250, that is quite far over the £200 budget.

So in this case if the 7950 outperforms the 270x and the n760 ( I guess this part is the most important and where the answer to my question is heading), I guess that would be the best option. Prices might drop even further and a 7970 could be a possibility. The 7950 would probably not give me ultra performance with 60fps, but I guess it will be good enough to at least play the games on high settings for a while to come.

And yes, Crysis is just insane! I do not care much about getting free games with the card. Working for a gaming company has its perks.. :)

 
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True Audio like you mentioned, and the games starting to use more cores in the future will probably give me a small performance boost in the future. But like I have seen mentioned in many cases, there is no telling how much that might be. Maybe we are only talking about 1 / 2 fps.
 
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it is the same difference between 270x and 7950 2-5 fps

but 270x will get u more in the future but 7950 will not
 
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And the 270x is quite a lot cheaper, unless prices drop even further for the 7950.

I think my decision is made then!

Thank you everyone. If you have something else to add, feel free then of course. I would always love to read more.. :)

 
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270x unless that would be worse then the 760, since they are about the same price.

Unless someone right now tells me that 7950 is still the better option.. :p But to be honest the only cheap version of this card was the Asus DCUII I saw on amazon.com The other versions were still above the £200 mark.

Now I will be browsing the different versions of the 270x to see which one is the best.. :)
 
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